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'Courier was much more than a clever vision. The team, which had more than 130 Microsoft employees contributing to it, had created several prototypes that gave a clear sense about the type of experience users would get. There were still tough hardware and software issues to resolve when Microsoft pulled the plug. But an employee who worked on Courier said the project was far enough along that the remaining work could have been completed in months if the company had added more people to the team. "There was extensive work done on the business, the technology and the experience," said a member of the Courier team. "It was very complete, not a whim."'

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsof...

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This is so revisionist.

That thing had two screens. How much would it have weighed? What would the battery life have been like? How much would it have cost.

These things matter.